Jackson Plude

Oh the splutter
then rattle

the dying minstrel
born Jackson Plude

from the town of Kleek
in the county of Blaise

has kissed his only girl
chewed his last rat

silver eyes set
on a slipping moon

that blacks this land
howls the coyote

southward and true
past Migsweed River

under Ladylog Wood
to deliverance